Tech News
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PC Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Conversion @ Techseekers
Published: Friday, January 30, 2004 | By: DennisOur resident Mac user will love this article at Techseekers.
"Most manufacturers have stayed very close to the reference design, and as such doesn't affect the success of the conversion. In my case I have used a Connect3D Radeon 9800 Pro, but any 9800 Pro will do."
No longer does the Macintosh and its users need to be stuck with shoddy video. -
Western Digital Raptor WD740GD Review @ Overclockers AU
Published: Friday, January 30, 2004 | By: DennisThe peeps in the down under have reviewed the new, improved, and bigger 10k RPM SerialATA Raptor drive from Western Digital.
"The interpretation of the results with the 3 tested drives is quite easy. Even a quick glance through the previous 6 tables with the test results reveals that the WD740 is consistently leading the pack. It is by a clear margin better than the older WD360 and it is outclassing the 7,200 rpm Maxtor in each and every test, be it as single disk or in RAID 0 with 2 disks."
I actually have 2 Raptor 36GB drives in a phatty ole RAID 0 in my current workstation; this combo is the only way to compute.
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Corsair Twinx Memory Reviews
Published: Friday, January 30, 2004 | By: DennisCorsair makes some of the best enthusiast memory on the market today; we use it in all of our systems here in the Ninjalane Labs and probably will for many more moons to come.
- Corsair TwinX PC4400 Review @ MadShrimps
"We first started out testing this memory on an Asus P4C800 with latest BIOS revision and a P4 2.4 "C" capable of 290FSB on air cooling. Although we are able to boot into windows and run some benches, this speed proved unstable when trying *any* 3D game/benchmark. So out went the Asus and in the Abit IS7."
Good board btw.
- Corsair TwinX XMS4000 Pro Review @ 3DXtreme
" Users with a stock P4 c revision Processor will be using a front side bus speed of 200 Mhz. In the following graphs you’ll see the memory bandwidth increase by moving from 200 to 233 and then to 250 Mhz. There is definitely an increase in the memory throughput when changing the Front Side Bus alone, keep in mind the CPU was still at 3.0 Ghz."
Obviously pimping that they got an engineering sample from Intel.
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nVidia XF 5700 Ultra Reviews
Published: Friday, January 30, 2004 | By: DennisI may be a little biased but from an architecture standpoint I think the FX5700 Ultra is one of the best mid-range cards out there, loads better than the FX 5600 Ultra from days gone by.
- Gigabyte GV-N57U128D FX 5700 Ultra Review @ PCStats
” Manually adjusting the core we were only able to hit 535 MHz. Not bad all things considered. The GV-NV57U128D is equipped with eight 128bit 2.2ns Samsung DDR2 (K4N26323AE-GC22) BGA DRAM modules that are clocked at 900 MHz SDR (450 MHz DDR) by default.”
- BFG Technologies Asylum FX 5700 Ultra Review @ Monkey Review
” BFG has impressed us by using a blue PCB rather than the green PCB we see on the reference cards. Something else which is impressive are the high quality ram sinks, we find these not only on the top side, but on both. Good move BFG.”
Kind of hard to read but there are just so many monkeys! I can't resist. -
NL: Review Block - Late Nite Ed
Published: Thursday, January 29, 2004 | By: DennisUp late? Need News?
- Home-made Waterblocks @ Madshrimps
- Swiftech MCX462-V Review @ Unique Hardware
- InWin X710 Review @ MetkuMods
- SilverStone Temjin Tj-01 Review @ TheCrucible
Check back for more wild and crazy stuff at. -
Gigabyte GV-N595U 256MB Review @ Hardware Zone
Published: Thursday, January 29, 2004 | By: Dennis"The RADEON 9800 PRO was the better performer at lower resolutions while the FX 5900 Ultra and FX 5950 Ultra dominated the high-end resolutions. Given the performance delta between the FX 5900 Ultra and the RADEON 9800 PRO 128MB at high resolutions, we can’t be too sure how helpful a 256MB frame buffer would be for the ATI card."
The current buzz is that the 9800XT is faster overall, though I doubt that anyone will notice 300+ FPS. -
Gigabyte GA-K8VNXP Review @ Bjorn3D
Published: Thursday, January 29, 2004 | By: DennisHere is something that has never sat well with me ever since I first saw it on an Albratron (almost Gigabyte) motherboard.
"However, this one little thing that could be a negative aspect of this layout actually turned out to be a positive one once I realized that having the floppy connector located there prevents the ugly, air-blocking floppy cable from being strewn across the motherboard. In other words, when the motherboard is installed, the floppy connector ends up being close to where the floppy drive usually is in a mid-tower case."
Don't get me wrong the floppy is almost dead and really the location of the connector prolly doesn't matter much but the way I see it, why bother putting it on the board to begin with if the connector is under the last PCI slot? -
The Most Hated Company In Tech
Published: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 | By: Dennis"Even though Caldera's revenues were declining, it was losing $5 million per quarter, and its stock had slid below the $1 NASDAQ delisting price, the reaction of outgoing CEO Ransom Love was instantaneous. "Don't do it," Love says he told McBride. "You don't want to take on the entire Linux community.""
So you think they will go under for this?
I dunno but the stupid dropdown menus on the businessweek site need to. -
SCO issues bounty for MyDoom creator
Published: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 | By: DennisWanted alive or alive - 250K for whoever wrote that virus.
"SCO has incurred the wrath of the Linux community for its claims that important pieces of the open-source operating system are covered by SCO's Unix copyrights. IBM, Novell and other Linux backers strongly dispute the claims."
Everyone is being a bunch of third graders in this whole thing. SCO, being the evil principal, has put the word out that whoever put the gum in little Suzie's hair is going down. Meanwhile, the kids in the playground are just laughing.
I suppose you can change the timeframe to college or high school but 3rd grade just seemed fitting. -
Soltek SL-K8AN-RL 'Black Thunder' Review Posted
Published: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 | By: DennisLooking to keep on top of the latest and greatest hardware money can buy? Having trouble in the money department? Look no further than the Soltek SL-K8AN-RL, a perfect solution for the Athlon64 hungry system builder on a budget.
